SHIPYARD Opening – Urban Activation
For the opening of a former shipyard as urban development site, Refunc stages a large-scale material performance. 150 car tires, 60 fish crates, two rescue capsules, three fishing nets, 20 IBC containers, and a 15ft shipping container are positioned underwater in the dock, invisible to arriving visitors. Two telescopic cranes borrowed from a construction company and one aerial work platform extract the submerged materials, assembling them into functional urban infrastructure as the public watches.
Tires become a continuous seating bank, fish crates transform into chairs and tables, the container surfaces with a fully operational bar inside. A giant industrial water pump generates an artificial waterfall at the side.
The opening choreographs function shift as theatrical process: invisible maritime surplus emerges as visible public domain, activated by borrowed industrial infrastructure.
